I've never seen votes make a real difference in the 6 years I've been around on Bugzilla. The one use case I can think for keeping them is as an "escape valve" for user frustration on old, long-standing bugs like
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41489 I.e. when people start griping about "I can't believe lame Mzilla hasn't fixed this yet" we can tell people to vote instead of filling the comments with complaints. But that's a rare case and I'm not sure it's worth keeping voting just for that. On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Chris Peterson <cpeter...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 6/9/15 2:09 PM, Mark Côté wrote: > >> In a quest to simplify both the interface and the maintenance of >> bugzilla.mozilla.org, we're looking for features that are of >> questionable value to see if we can get rid of them. As I'm sure >> everyone knows, Bugzilla grew organically, without much of a road map, >> over a long time, and it experienced a lot of scope bloat, which has >> made it complex both on the inside and out. I'd like to cut that down >> at least a bit if I can. >> >> To that end, I'd like to consider the voting feature. While it is >> enabled on a quite a few products, anecdotally I have heard >> many times that it isn't actually useful, that is, votes aren't really >> being used to prioritize features & fixes. If your team uses voting, >> I'd like to talk about your use case and see if, in general, it makes >> sense to continue to support this feature. >> > > I vote for bugs as a polite (sneaky?) way to watch a bug's bugmail without > spamming all the other CCs by adding myself to the bug's "real" CC list. > > > chris > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- Jason _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
